resistance

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or an instance of resisting or the capacity to resist.

n. A force that tends to oppose or retard motion.

n. An underground organization engaged in a struggle for national liberation in a country under military or totalitarian occupation.

n. Psychology A process in which the ego opposes the conscious recall of anxiety-producing experiences.

n. Biology The capacity of an organism to defend itself against a disease.

n. Biology The capacity of an organism or a tissue to withstand the effects of a harmful environmental agent.

n. Electricity The opposition of a body or substance to current passing through it, resulting in a change of electrical energy into heat or another form of energy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.

n. A force that tends to oppose motion.

n. Shortened form of electrical resistance.

n. An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

n. The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power

n. A means or method of resisting; that which resists.

n. A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an electrical current or discharge offered by conducting bodies. It bears an inverse relation to the conductivity, -- good conductors having a small resistance, while poor conductors or insulators have a very high resistance. The unit of resistance is the ohm.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of resisting; opposition; antagonism.

n. The force exerted by a fluid or other medium to retard the motion of a body through it; more generally, any force which always acts in a direction opposite to the residual velocity, or to any component of it: as, resistance to shearing.

n. In electricity, that property of a conductor in virtue of which the passage of a current through it is accompanied by a dissipation of energy; the transformation of electric energy into heat.

n.Synonyms Hindrance, antagonism, check. See appose.

n. In naval architecture, the reaction which a vessel opposes to an extraneous force by which it is dragged or driven through the water, and particularly to motion forward in the direction of the length of the vessel.

n. Resistance to the flow of current which occurs at the surface between conductors in contact, as in the coherer, or between the liquid and the terminal of an electrolyticcell, or between the heated gas in the electric are and the carbon.

n. The resistance offered by a dielectric to the passage of an electric current; the ohmic resistance of an insulating substance.

It is all of that, because, again, when the population all of a sudden shifts from either tacitly accepting or maybe even actively supporting Al Qaeda and seeing them cloaked in the term resistance, and then seeing them for what they are, which is the purveyors of extremist ideology, indiscriminate violence and even oppressive practices.

I have never wanted to leave the Island; I have believed (romantically, I am sure) that I am more useful here, that I belong to this place and that my resistance is also my own way of paying my homage and my respect to the Cuba that we we all want, including those who rebelled that day.

This resistance is also widespread among private landowners, and, according to an AP article a few weeks ago, "About the same time, the government offered to pay some property owners $3,000 in exchange for permission to conduct surveys for the project."